STUDENT LIFE
Bring 'em back alive.
It's Marg's treat to the
Staff.
Nice and friendly.
Just showing off.
See No. 3.
Do tell.
Now, let me see.
Private property.
Down on tip toes.
Pretty—Huh?
STUDENT LIFE
Keep the home fires burn-ing.
Some must push.
Campus Queen No. I.
3 for 5c.
Cute—but—
Send us up a harp.
The call of the wild.
Tee-Hee!
Campus Queen No. 2.
Bringing home the milk.
Atha.
Dixie
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STUDENT LIFE
All dressed up and no place
to go.
Beth can't take it.
Ora and Vergie.
And who's little boy are you?
Someone had an idea —
that's Weber on the bot-tom.
It must be a posed picture.
Push! Mr. Wright—Push!
The Xi Lambda line up.
And...
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school connection and the HLEs of these students are just some of the reasons for these
remarkable academic achievements.
Delimitations
This study did not collect data from any schools other than Dixie Sun Elementary. It
focused on ELLs in the...
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reading, writing, and listening as outlined in the Utah Core Curriculum. These tests are an
integral component of U-PASS (Utah Performance Assessment System for Students) and the
federal No Child Left Behind legislation.
Digital literacies:...
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assessment is to provide educators with a total proficiency score for use in their schools, districts,
and state, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Students will be assessed in the
four language acquisition modalities of...
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community to display children’s work, bringing children’s artifacts from home to display at
school, and sharing photographs outside the classroom (Feiler et al., 2008).
In conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE)...
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reading achievement among children across most of the countries, and that higher economic
levels of a country were related to richer home-literacy environments, whereas lower economic
levels were associated with poorer home-literacy...
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that curriculum standards are taught and students are prepared for end-of-level tests, such as the
CRTs. However, if educators recognize that another priority of teaching should be to learn about
the HLEs, home communities, and the cultural...
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Table 2
Home Visit Comparison Chart
High-Literate ELL Home Visits Low-Literate ELL Home Visits
All families were nuclear. There were more single-parent families than
nuclear families.
At least one parent spoke both English and
Spanish...
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give it a pleasing color. Children in the neighborhood are laughing and playing and do not seem
to mind using the road for a playground. Upon entering the home, Miguel shouts, “¡Mama, la
maestra esta aquí! La maestra esta aquí!” In this...
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has one sister, but her dad has returned to Mexico and is married to another woman, and he has
an entirely new family. The relentless pain this has caused Dulce is obvious as she constantly
talks about her dad at school and expresses her sorrow....
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Figure 1. Language in the Home: Students
Figure 2. Language in the Home: Parents
five minutes a day = 2, 15 minutes a day = 3, 30 minutes a day = 4, and more than 45 minutes a
day = 5. The results showed that high and low ELLs spend almost the...
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Quantitative Data: Language and Literacy in the School
All of the high ELLs preferred to speak only English with their peers at school. More
than half of low ELLs preferred to speak both English and Spanish (see Table 6). The majority of
low...
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every day = 5. High ELLs used their computers to access digital literacies 23% more than low
ELLs. It is important to note that both groups of ELLs took advantage of digital literacies in the
HLE. More than half of both high and low ELLs who had...
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Chapter 5
Discussion
This chapter is outlined by first revisiting the problem and issues and why they are
important to this final discussion. Next, the similarities and differences between the results of
this study and that of others are...